Moneyball, the movie:
Billy Beane: It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball. This kind of thing, it’s fun for the fans. It sells tickets and hot dogs. Doesn’t mean anything.
Fuck baseball. How can you not be romantic about book publishing?
Everyone was in on the auction last week. The proposal went out to fifteen hundred fucking people. Matt Damon got one. On Mars.
This post is for my fellow writers. No one else would understand.